THE SEA: IDEAS AND OBSERVATIONS ON PROGRESS IN THE STUDY OF THE SEAS
Cover: The Sea, Volume 14A: The Global Coastal Ocean in HARDCOVER

The Sea, Volume 14A: The Global Coastal Ocean

Interdisciplinary Regional Studies and Syntheses

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HARDCOVER

$176.00 • £140.95 • €158.50

ISBN 9780674015272

Publication Date: 09/30/2006

Short

840 pages

7 x 10 inches

20 color illustrations, 50 halftones, 150 line illustrations

The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas

World

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  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Contributors
  • External Reviewers
  • Part 1. Panregional Interdisciplinary Overviews
    • 1. Western Ocean Boundaries / Steven E. Lohrenz and Belmiro M. Castro
    • 2. Eastern Ocean Boundaries Pan Regional / David L. Mackas, P. Ted Strub, Andrew C. Thomas and Vivian Montecino
    • 3. Polar Ocean Coastal Boundaries Overview / R. Grant Ingram, Edward C. Carmack, Fiona A. McLaughlin and Stephen Nicol
    • 4. Semi-Enclosed Seas, Islands and Australia Overview / Temel Oguz and SU Jilan
  • Part 2. Regional Interdisciplinary Oceanography
    • 5. Oceanography of the Northwest Atlantic Continental Shelf / David W. Townsend, Andrew C. Thomas, Lawrence M. Mayer, Maura A. Thomas and John A. Quinlan
    • 6. Regional Oceanography: Southeastern United States and Gulf of Mexico / Steven E. Lohrenz and Peter G. Verity
    • 7. Structure and Function in the Ecosystems of the IntraAmericas Sea (IAS) / Elva Escobar Briones
    • 8. Multidisciplinary Oceanographic Processes On the Western Atlantic Continental Shelf Between 4N and 34S / Belmiro M. Castro, Frederico P. Brandini, Ana Maria S. Pires-Vanin and Luiz B. Miranda
    • 9. Coastal Oceanography of the Western South Atlantic Continental Shelf (33 to 55S) / Gerardo M. E. Perillo, M. Cintia Piccolo and Jorge Marcovecchio
    • 10. Bio-Physical Interactions Off Western South America / Vivian Montecino, P. Ted Strub, Francisco Chavez, Andrew Thomas, Juan Tarazona, and Tim Baumgartner
    • 11. Coastal Biogeochemical and Ecological Processes from the Eastern Tropical North Pacific to the Gulf of California / Juan Carlos Herguera
    • 12. Interdisciplinary Oceanography of the Western North American Continental Margin: Vancouver Island to the Tip of Baja California / David L. Mackas
    • 13. Bibliography On the Northeastern Pacific Continental Shelves / Thomas C. Royer
    • 14. Eastern Asia, Kamchatka to Oyashio Region / Michio J. Kishi, Hiroshi Kawamura, Vradim V. Navrotsky and Osamu Isoguchi
    • 15. Far Eastern Asiai/Kuroshio Region / Takashige Sugimoto and Michio J. Kishi
    • 16. Interdisciplinary Physical and Biological Processes of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Japan/East Sea / Chang-Ik Zhang, Vladimir I. Radchenko, Takashige Sugimoto and Sangmin Hyun
    • 17. Nutrient Dynamics of the China Seas: The Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea and South China Sea / Jing Zhang and SU Jilan
    • 18. Monsoonal Forcing and Biogeochemical Environments of Outer Southeast Asia Seas / Kon-Kee Liu, Shenn-Yu Chao, John Marra and Anond Snidvongs
    • 19. Coastal Biogeochemical Processes in the North Indian Ocean / S. Wajih, A. Naqvi, Pradip V. Narvekar, and Ehrlich Desa

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